{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2009-1005/article-16",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2009-1005/article-16.json",
  "legislation": "eur/2009/1005",
  "legislation_title": "Regulation (EC) No 1005/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 September 2009 on substances that deplete the ozone layer (recast) (Text with EEA relevance)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2009-1005",
  "path": "article/16",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "Release for free circulation in any part of Great Britain of imported controlled substances",
  "text": "1. The release for free circulation in any part of Great Britain of imported controlled substances shall be subject to quantitative limits. The appropriate regulator shall determine those limits and allocate quotas to undertakings for the period from the day after that on which IP completion day falls to 31 December 2021 and for each 12-month period thereafter ...\nThe quotas referred to in the first subparagraph shall be allocated only for the following substances:\n(a) controlled substances if they are used for laboratory and analytical, or critical uses, referred to in Article 10, Article 11(2) and Article 13;\n(b) controlled substances if they are used as feedstock;\n(c) controlled substances if they are used as process agents.\n2. By the date specified in a notice issued by the appropriate regulator, importers of substances referred to in points (a), (b) and (c) of paragraph 1 shall declare to the appropriate regulator the anticipated demand, specifying the nature and quantities of controlled substances needed. On the basis of those declarations the appropriate regulator shall establish quantitative limits to the imports of substances referred to in points (a), (b) and (c) of paragraph 1.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Art. 16(1) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Ozone-Depleting Substances and Fluorinated Greenhouse Gases (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/583), regs. 1, 15(3)(a) (as amended by S.I. 2020/1616, regs. 1(2), 2(9)(b)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Art. 16(1) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Ozone-Depleting Substances and Fluorinated Greenhouse Gases (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/583), regs. 1, 15(3)(b); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Art. 16(1) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Ozone-Depleting Substances and Fluorinated Greenhouse Gases (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/583), regs. 1, 15(3)(c) (as amended by S.I. 2020/1616, regs. 1(2), 2(9)(c)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in Art. 16(1) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Ozone-Depleting Substances and Fluorinated Greenhouse Gases (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/583), regs. 1, 15(3)(d); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in Art. 16(2) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Ozone-Depleting Substances and Fluorinated Greenhouse Gases (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/583), regs. 1, 15(4); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in Art. 16 heading substituted (31.12.2020) by The Ozone-Depleting Substances and Fluorinated Greenhouse Gases (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/583), regs. 1, 15(2) (as amended by by S.I. 2020/1616, regs. 1(2), 2(9)(a)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2009/1005/article/16",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:51:10.641984+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}